A new message popped onto Blair's screen from a friend who helped with his website. “What viral insanity should we spread this morning?” the friend asked. “The more extreme we become, the more people believe it,” Blair…

Before there was a spark, there was the wind. On the morning of Nov. 8, as the sun rose over the isolated mountains in the Sierra Nevada, gale-force winds tore through the canyon. A fire outpost on the Feather River recorded blasts of 52 mph…

Two pro dart players have accused each other of farting on stage during a match in England this week — casting a cloud of controversy over the heralded tournament. “It'll take me two nights to lose this smell from my nose,”…

In the parlance of spying, backstories are called legends, and The Little Drummer Girl is a spy story with a hell of a legend. It was 1979, and David Cornwell wanted to do something different. The world knew Cornwell by his pen name John le…